Instructions to Build:

Revenue - Industry Agnostic Revenue - Analysis

1 Important Data Request Form and Power BI

Information

2 Data Preparation

3 Import Data into Power BI

4 Reconcile Imported Data to Source Data

5 Tableau vs Power BI Differences

Look for the i icon throughout this guide for helpful information about Power BI.
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1. Important Data Request Form and Power BI Information

This dashboard is designed to have two periods of data.

Data Request Form

Please edit the following sheets only (green tab color) from PowerBI –Revenue - Industry Agnostic Revenue- Analysis - Data
Request Form with relevant information:

1. Request: The information entered within this sheet is linked to other sheets in the workbook that are utilized in the Power BI
dashboard. It is important that only the cells highlighted in green are edited. Modifying other cells or not entering the
correct information within the green cells may result in inaccurate or broken visualizations in the Power BI dashboard.

2. General Ledger Detail / Sales Subledger Detail: Input data sheets containing data from source data files provided by the client.

Please use the following sheet for reference:

3. Fields vs Visuals: This sheet shows specific data fields being used for each tab within the Power BI file.

Please do not alter the following sheets, they are formula driven:

4. Input Parameters: Contains project detail information from the ‘Request’ sheet.

5. Mapping Parameters: Contains field mapping information from the ‘Request’ sheet.

6. Materiality: Contains materiality and clearly trivial threshold information from the ‘Request’ sheet.

7. Fiscal Calendar: Contains fiscal calendar mapping information from the ‘Request’ sheet.

Power BI

1. This dashboard was created using June

2020 Power BI software. Use June
2020 or a newer version in order to
open this Power BI file. To check your
version, select File > About. Reference
screenshot to the right.
2. Some dashboards may contain multiple
sections, requiring the user to scroll.
Check to see if the dashboard requires
scrolling to view additional visualizations
before moving on to the next
dashboard.
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2. Data Preparation (Request)

This dashboard is designed to have two periods of data.

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Open PowerBI –
Revenue - Industry
Agnostic Revenue –
Analysis – Data
Request Form.

Go to ‘Request’
sheet.

Fill in only the green

cells with the
required information.

The tables to the

right shows optional
and required fields
for this analytic.

Please use only the

‘Document Type’ values
noted in the field
description. The Power BI
visuals will break or remain
empty if other values are
used within these fields.

Please see the following pages for instructions on how to fill out the ‘General Ledger Detail’ and ‘Sales Subledger
Detail’ sheets in PowerBI – Revenue - Industry Agnostic Revenue- Analysis – Data Request Form .

Incomplete or inaccurate information in green cells of this sheet may cause broken or inaccurate visualizations in the Power BI
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dashboard.
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2. Data Preparation (Continued) - (General Ledger Detail)

This dashboard is designed to have two periods of data.

Go to the “General Ledger Detail” sheet. Below are instructions to bring the entity’s data into this sheet using Excel. For
C larger data sets, consider using ACL to prepare data using similar logic.

Required Fields for

General Ledger Detail Field Type
The tables to the right show the
fields that are required for this
analytic.
Entity Character
Check the format for each
column in the source data files.
Effective Date Date
Ensure they match the formats
shown in the table to the right.
GL Account Number Character

GL Account Name Character

Amount Numeric

1. Open source data files received from Client.

2. Copy data from relevant fields from ‘Required Fields for Analysis’ columns above (Excluding row 1
column headers) from Current Period source data file to the “General Ledger Detail” sheet in the PowerBI
– Revenue - Industry Agnostic Revenue – Data Request Form under Columns A – E.
3. Repeat previous step for Prior Period data, adding the data directly below Current Period data.
4. Save PowerBI – Revenue - Industry Agnostic Revenue – Data Request Form.

Please refer to image on the next page showing an example of summarized data in the ‘General Ledger Detail’
sheet that will be loaded into Power BI.
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2. Data Preparation (Continued) - (General Ledger Detail)

This dashboard is designed to have two periods of data.

Confirm the columns are populated from source data files with the correct values under the specified column names.
If missing optional fields, do not delete the columns, leave them blank. If missing required fields, refer to ‘Fields vs Visuals’
sheet in PowerBI – Revenue - Industry Agnostic Revenue - Analysis– Data Request Form to understand specific data fields being
used for each visual.

Do NOT add columns, delete columns or change column headings in any sheet – this may result in
errors.
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2. Data Preparation (Continued) - (Sales Subledger Detail)

This dashboard is designed to have two periods of data.

Go to the “Sales Subledger Detail” sheet. Below are instructions to bring the entity’s data into this sheet using Excel. For
D larger data sets, consider using ACL to prepare data using similar logic.

Required Fields
for Analysis Field Type Optional Fields for Analysis
Field Type
Sales Subledger - Sales Subledger Detail
The tables to the right show the Detail
fields that are required and
Product or Service Type Character
optional for this analytic.
Entity Character Quantity Numeric

Effective Date Date

Check the format for each
column in the source data files. Customer Character
Ensure they match the formats
Document Character
shown in the table to the right.
Number

Document Type Character

Product or Character
Service

Sale Amount Numeric

1. Open source data files received from Client.

2. Copy data from relevant fields from ‘Required Fields for Analysis’ columns above (Excluding row 1
column headers) and ‘Optional Fields for Analysis’, if applicable, from Current Period source data file to
the “Sales Subledger Detail” sheet in the PowerBI – Revenue - Industry Agnostic Revenue – Data
Request Form under Columns A – I.
3. Repeat previous step for Prior Period data, adding the data directly below Current Period data.
4. Save PowerBI – Revenue - Industry Agnostic Revenue – Data Request Form.

Please refer to image on the next page showing an example of summarized data in the ‘Sales Subledger
Detail’ sheet that will be loaded into Power BI.
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2. Data Preparation (Continued) - (Sales Subledger Detail)

This dashboard is designed to have two periods of data.

Confirm the columns are populated from source data files with the correct values under the specified column names.
If missing optional fields, do not delete the columns, leave them blank. If missing required fields, refer to ‘Fields vs Visuals’
sheet in PowerBI – Revenue - Industry Agnostic Revenue - Analysis– Data Request Form to understand specific data fields being
used for each visual.

Do NOT add columns, delete columns or change column headings in any sheet – this may result in
errors.
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3. Import Data into Power BI

Open PowerBI – Revenue

- Industry Agnostic
Revenue – Analysis file.

Click on the bottom part of

the “Transform data” icon O
in the Queries section of
the ribbon and select “Data
source settings”.

Click on “Change Source”.

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3. Import Data into Power BI (Continued)

Click “Browse” and find

PowerBI – Revenue -
Industry Agnostic Revenue
– Data Request Form from
the saved location.

If not already selected,

select “Excel Workbook”
under ‘Open file as’.

Click “OK” then select

“Close”.

E
Click “Refresh”.

i Upon successful import, there will not be any error messages and the tie-out in the Background tab can be used to ensure the
totals in the analytic tie out to the source data.
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3. Import Data into Power BI (Continued) – Potential Errors

The error message to the right

may be received if a required
column was changed or does not
exist. Please ensure ALL original
column names in the ‘General
Ledger Detail’ and ‘Sales
Subledger Detail’ exist
unmodified.

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The error message to the right may
be received if a sheet does not
exist. Please reference the data
request form during import and
retain ‘General Ledger Detail’ and
‘Sales Subledger Detail’ sheet
name.

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The error message to the right may be received if
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one of the quantitative fields contains a character

instead of a number. Please check the data and
replace it with either a number or a blank cell.
Click on “View Errors” which opens Query Editor
to learn more about which row number and
column contains the error(s).
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4. Reconcile Imported Data to Source Data

Click on the Data Icon and

view the first few records
to ensure the data was
imported. To navigate to
the main data, on the right
hand side of this view
under ‘FIELDS’ select
‘General Ledger Detail’
and ‘Sales Subledger
Detail’.

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If the data doesn’t look
like the data received
by the entity, please go
back to Step 3 to try to
import the data again.

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Click on the Report Icon to
view the visualizations.

If source data totals do not match imported totals in the Background tab, it is possible that data is missing from the analytic or
i being double counted. Please check to make sure mapping and data preparation was done correctly in Step 2 and reimport the
data using the instructions found in Step 3.
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4. Reconcile Imported Data to Source Data (Continued)

Navigate to Background
tab on the dashboard.

Do not view any

visualizations until it is
confirmed that all of the
source data was imported.

Compare totals imported in

Background dashboard to
the source data received
from the client.

If source data totals do not match imported totals in the Background tab, it is possible that data is missing from the analytic or
i being double counted. Please check to make sure mapping and data preparation was done correctly in Step 2 and reimport the
data using the instructions found in Step 3.
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5. Tableau vs Power BI Differences

Additional information about each dashboard can be found differently in Power BI versus Tableau. Key information found through
A hovering over special icons includes the Risk Factors and GRA Question(s) relevant for a dashboard, the audit purpose of the
dashboard, helpful information for the dashboard and special filter / parameter information as applicable. In Power BI, all of this
information can be found from hovering over the Risk Factor found on the top left-hand side of the dashboard. In Tableau, this
information is found within separate icons. See comparison below.

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Risk factor

Audit Purpose

Helpful Tips

Special Information

B In Power BI, the tabs after the “End of Analytic” tab contain the tooltip text visible when hovering over the Risk Factor on each
dashboard.
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5. Tableau vs Power BI Differences (Continued)

Dashboard – Tab 5
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C In Tableau (left) this dashboard is set up in 2 sections using a ‘View By’ parameter to change views, while it’s displayed as 3
separate sections in Power BI (right). In Tableau (left) Sales Amount & Transaction Volume are displayed in separate sections,
while in Power BI (right), the user has the ability to toggle between Sales Amount, Transaction Volume and/or Number of
Customers/ Number of Product or Service in the respective section.
Materiality and CTT is displayed as a constant line within the charts in Tableau (left) while it is displayed next to the visual in
Power BI (right).
In Power BI (right) instead of a scatter plot, a bar chart and detail table must be used to represent aggregation of calendar day,
Customer, and Product or Service. The bars are color coded based on Materiality and Clearly Trivial Threshold.

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5. Tableau vs Power BI Differences (Continued)

Dashboard – Tab 7
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D In Power BI (top) the bar chart is laid out differently from Tableau (bottom). Instead of having two sections of bars with prior period
bars in one area and current period bars in another, Power BI has current period and prior period bars side by side. Power BI (top)
cannot allow you to see both amount and percentage at the same time, so the user will need to toggle between the two views
using the ‘View’ parameter.
In Power BI (top) there is no expand collapse functionality.

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